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How to teach with KNIT
Use KNIT to set up private or public class websites and discussion forums. These virtual spaces can be used to facilitate online discussion, networked collaboration, multimodal pedagogy, and public humanities course projects.
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Welcome to KNIT, UC San Diego’s pilot Digital Commons!
Click here to find out how you can use KNIT to build community and collaborate across campus.
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Create a group
Find out how to use KNIT to build community and facilitate communication for research groups, courses, committees, or special interest groups.
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Create a site
Create customizable WordPress websites to showcase your research, host course discussion, provide public resources, develop your online presence and more.
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The Library’s Digital Media Lab
Check out exciting resources for 3D printing and advanced media production at the Library's Digital Media Lab!
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Digital Arts & Humanities Initiatives
Learn about exciting new digital arts & humanities initiatives, projects, and resources happening on campus.
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Recent Blog Posts
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MICHELLE LE wrote a new blog post Open Access in the group
KNIT R&D: 3 days, 21 hours agoAs these readings go on, I find myself learning more and more about what open access really means and how the digital world copes with a controversial idea. The full text of “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” and […]
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HANNAH GRIFFITH edited the blog post Dark Web of Knowledge in the group
KNIT R&D: 5 days, 18 hours agoWhat happens when we corporatize knowledge? I picture a dystopia where all the fat cats at the top hold all of the wealth of knowledge discovered by scientists and researchers, while all of the folks at the bottom […]
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Zach Young wrote a new blog post Taking the Public Good With the Public Bad in the group
KNIT R&D: 1 week, 1 day agoIn Men in Black, Tommy Lee Jones’ character makes a comment that is dishearteningly, universally true: “A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.” This is at the core of mob […]
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Michael wrote a new blog post 6th Annual Aaron Swartz Day! in the group
KNIT R&D: 1 week, 5 days agoHello friends!
This was sent to me and I figured I should definitely share it with all of you!
6th Annual Aaron Swartz Day & International Hackathon at the Internet Archive
I don’t know how I forgot to […]
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Allegra Swift wrote a new post, MDPI´s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) with the University of California, San Diego, on the site CONDUIT 1 week, 6 days ago
UC San Diego Library participates in the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) and recently signed on for the advanced program.
What does this mean for […]
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HIRAM SANCHEZ edited the blog post Nothing Special in the group
KNIT R&D: 2 weeks, 3 days agoWhen I finished reading “Science’s Pirate Queen” my one thought was. I think the reason why giant publications are so threatened by “Sci Hub” is not the fact that they are stealing, but the fact that they show […]
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MICHELLE LE wrote a new blog post The Public Intellectual. in the group
KNIT R&D: 2 weeks, 3 days agoReflecting on Kathleen Fitzgerald’s work, I find myself struck by her views on how the barrier to access academic material in an increasingly digital world isn’t reliant on one factor-it’s reliant on a multitude. […]
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HANNAH GRIFFITH edited the blog post Knowledge Shouldn’t be a Privilege in the group
KNIT R&D: 2 weeks, 3 days agoKathleen Fitzpatrick’s “Working in Public” lays out my dream world! All I have ever wanted is to merge the academic world with the every day one, because they are not as separate from each other as we tend to […]
